St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-05-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Collision i'm NIid-Ocean.

One of those ocean mishaps thai
verge perilously close upon disasters
and are startling in the suggestions o
what might have been, took place
Thursday in the collision of the steam
ers Celtic and Britannia, $50 miles of
Sandy Hook, resulting in the loss o.
four of the Britannic's steerage pas
sengers and the damage of both YES
sells. They came together in a dense
fog, the Celtic striking the Britannia
on the port side. The saddest and
most deplorable result of the accident
is the fate of the four steerage passen-
gers who were lying about aft at the
time of the collision and were killed
while several others were injured. AS
the bow struck the pump ID caught a
steerage passenger, crushed him
against the iron and cut the body com
pletely in two. A little girl of about
ii years named Robinson, who was
with her mother and brother on heI
way to England for a visit, was also
crushed by the bow, her face and
breast being split open.
Gladstone will not visit America.
Ex-Mayor A. Palmer of Boston is
dead.
The Beecher monument fund has
reached a total of $40 ,5O9.Ol.
James M. TrOtter, recorder of deeds,
has so far recovered his health as to
assume control of his office.
Col. Robert G.. Ingersoll's eldest
daughter is said to have the purest and
best soprano voice in New York.
At Chicago the conditions of the
lockout are still unchanged. Both
sides remain firm, and give no indica-
tiOns of coming to an understanding
and resuming work.
Col. Grady of Atlanta is very pc
culiar man. He dictates his editorials
to a stenographer, who follows him
about the streets in order to be on
hand when his chief is struck by some
idea that must be grasped and immOr-
talized while yet fresh.
The Goth anniversary of the depart
ure of the I'd Vermont regiment from
Vermont for the front will be celebrat-
ed by reunion of the survivors at
Bennington June 81. Col. Charles H.
Joyce of Rutland will deliver the ad-
dress.
Editor O'Brien was mobbed at To-
ronto last week after one of his lee
lures and nearly killed. Leading To-
rOntO papers denounce those who in
terfered with the meeting and assault
ed O'Brien, and demand that the black
guards be found and punished.
Florida, finally, has succeeded in
electing United States senator, as
successor to Mr.. Charles w. Jones OF
Detroit. This was accomplished May
10, Samuel PascO receiving the full
democratic legislative vote, "a to IL
for Mr.. Goodrich, republican.
South Carolina needs to become
more tolerant of persons and opinions.
George w. Gable was engaged to lect-
ure at Columbia for the public school
library fund, but "leading citizens
got very indignant over the "insult,' y
"disgrace," and so forth, and Mr.. Gable
was notified that the engagement was
cancelled by those who solicited it.
j. j. Finney, "Old Virginia." found
a piece of gold about six miles from
Downieville, Sierra County, on August
81, 1886, that weighed five thousand
ounces and was worth $4,000, the
largest piece of pure gold ever discov-
cred, so far as accounts go. Hereto
fore, the Australian nugget, found in
the Ballarat gold fields, has been con-
sidered the largest it was valued at
100000.
Another skeleton was unearthed
Tuesday in w. E. DOolittle's High
street cellar hole, at BrattlebOro and
all sorts of ideas are advanced as to
how it came there. Some are of the
opinion that they are bones of very
early settlers who had natural buri-
al there, while others are inclined to
believe that they belonged to an old
time physician who owned the prem
ises so or so years ago.